"To go forward you have to leave something behind"
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"I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back."
"Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret."
"It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness."
"Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it."
"We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up."
"The road before us is shorter than the road behind."
"I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there"
"Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you."
"Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind."
"Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty."
"The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind."
"Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods."
"The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self."
"Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise"
"It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking at."
"What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you."
"I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television."
"When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind."
"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
"Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place."